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linebacker55 · 07-03-2008

Finding consistency in paint can be hit and miss, I know for sure. The period I model in Trains is post 1948 up to 1968. For example, the DJH Kit of a Maunsell H15 requires satin black, which if well applied looks sort of semi-weathered on the boiler. I then use matt black for your piston boxes and running gear below the footplate. Safe enough... the same with the Schools Class I made from a Finecast Kit. Different thing entirely when I made my Un-Rebuilt Merchant Navy. At first I chose Malachite, which looked more like Pea green than the blu'ish hue you expect from that shade...and no amount of convincing would have made me accept that colour...so out came the stripping paste and the following day it was re-painted in BR Brunswick Green from Railmatch paints. One instinctively knows when something is right!

So... now I don't mess about experimenting...I buy the real colour from the company that actually made the paint for the full-size Engines.

I wonder if BA will divulge the supplier of their whites?

07-03-2008	#7 (permalink)
linebacker55 Scale Model Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Hampshire England Real Name: Jules My Models: OO Gauge Trains Visit linebacker55's Gallery Posts: 37	on the subject of paint... Finding consistency in paint can be hit and miss, I know for sure. The period I model in Trains is post 1948 up to 1968. For example, the DJH Kit of a Maunsell H15 requires satin black, which if well applied looks sort of semi-weathered on the boiler. I then use matt black for your piston boxes and running gear below the footplate. Safe enough... the same with the Schools Class I made from a Finecast Kit. Different thing entirely when I made my Un-Rebuilt Merchant Navy. At first I chose Malachite, which looked more like Pea green than the blu'ish hue you expect from that shade...and no amount of convincing would have made me accept that colour...so out came the stripping paste and the following day it was re-painted in BR Brunswick Green from Railmatch paints. One instinctively knows when something is right! So... now I don't mess about experimenting...I buy the real colour from the company that actually made the paint for the full-size Engines. I wonder if BA will divulge the supplier of their whites?